NASA Releases New High-Definition Image of Earth

New submitter klchoward writes "Working for NOAA, I have been really pleased to see the weather data from the new Suomi NPP satellite coming into our computer models already but have been blown away by its capability to take stunning high-definition images of our planet. See the article at Huffington Post or go straight to the image at NASA's website." Reader derekmead has some images from further afield, too: these beautiful images of Mars come from NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Comments

That's our home...

[jtseng]

We have to love it since we can't leave it.

Too Large

[Anonymous Coward]

The North American continent is too large. Or the Earth is too small.

It is very bothersome, and creates the illusion that the USA is much larger than it is!

Just USA seen from space. Not whole Earth.

[Schwarzy]

I much prefer this one about Apollo-1 crew:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2160.html

Very nice shot. Reminds also how difficult and dangerous was the space race.

Re:It's not a photograph

[Lev13than]

It's a little sad that the last time any human was able to see the entire earth at once was December 1972. That's like traveling across the ocean and then coming home and sitting on your front porch for the next 30 years.